"Cancers morning nods." You seem to have found a deep wisdom to listen to your illness and ask it why it came, why is chose your friendship and where it wants to take you, what it wants you to know. Seeing the spiders masterpiece seems as if it was made just for you, beauty doesn't linger it only visits, you see beauty in the riches of your experience. Thank you or sharing your heart and light with us, I will keep looking for my own spiderweb masterpiece I know its out there somewhere waiting for me. Much love my friend.
I also love the report. Being a nurse for--cough cough--44 years (what!) I must say good news is, well, good news ❤️ I see miracles every single day. It keeps me going. And it will, you too.
Just like that spider who creates a masterpiece only to have it disappear the next day, but keeps rebuilding.
The picture of the web reminded me of a favorite quote from Barbara Kingsolver, “The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under it’s roof.”
I try to imagine what you have seen in those 44 years. The anger. The joy. The hope. The disappointments and, of course, especially the miracles.
I'd never heard it, but the Kingsolver quote is washing over me. Such courage to move in with hope. To live under her silent roof. I imagine her occasionally and intentionally leaving an unwashed sugar spoon for us to find in the sink when we come home, but only on the hardest days. The days when the miracles were mostly hidden from our eyes. Perhaps, and only perhaps, this is what hope does best. She knows us. She reminds us.
Love this. “But to be completely honest, the medical part of this continues to be the least interesting part, and it’s not even close.”
"Cancers morning nods." You seem to have found a deep wisdom to listen to your illness and ask it why it came, why is chose your friendship and where it wants to take you, what it wants you to know. Seeing the spiders masterpiece seems as if it was made just for you, beauty doesn't linger it only visits, you see beauty in the riches of your experience. Thank you or sharing your heart and light with us, I will keep looking for my own spiderweb masterpiece I know its out there somewhere waiting for me. Much love my friend.
Love the picture of, what I think, is a dome web.
So intricate and delicate.
I also love the report. Being a nurse for--cough cough--44 years (what!) I must say good news is, well, good news ❤️ I see miracles every single day. It keeps me going. And it will, you too.
Just like that spider who creates a masterpiece only to have it disappear the next day, but keeps rebuilding.
The picture of the web reminded me of a favorite quote from Barbara Kingsolver, “The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under it’s roof.”
Much love to you.
Janice,
I try to imagine what you have seen in those 44 years. The anger. The joy. The hope. The disappointments and, of course, especially the miracles.
I'd never heard it, but the Kingsolver quote is washing over me. Such courage to move in with hope. To live under her silent roof. I imagine her occasionally and intentionally leaving an unwashed sugar spoon for us to find in the sink when we come home, but only on the hardest days. The days when the miracles were mostly hidden from our eyes. Perhaps, and only perhaps, this is what hope does best. She knows us. She reminds us.
Thank you for this note. So much.